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...most extraordinary episodes of recent musical annals was witnessed at the Paris Opera the other night. Ganna Walska appeared on the stage of that old and famous opera house in the extremely difficult role of Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto. The historical institution, scene of so many great operatic triumphs, was crowded with aristocrats who wished to listen to what was certain to be a most interesting performance...
...opera. To achieve this desire she has waged a prodigious battle. She has had failure after failure on the operatic stage; yet she has persisted, and has set an unusually strong and tenacious will to gain her ambition, until the question has been raised on all sides: Has Ganna Walska a voice? The critics have replied again and again: Mme. Walska has no voice. She has some pretty but very small tones in her lower voice, good enough for small parlor singing, but her upper register is so weak and thin that when she essays the big and loud singing...
Alexander Smith Cochran, millionaire carpet manufacturer and second husband of the now Ganna Walska McCormick, whilom opera star: " In my private yacht, Restless, I arrived in Honolulu from England via Panama. The Restless cost $500,000. She is on her maiden voyage around the world...
After ending her feud with Claudia Muzio by a loving embrace at Monte Carlo, Mary Garden became publicly reconciled with Ganna Walska McConnick and Lucian Muratore on the occasion of Muratore's debut at the Opéra Comique, Paris. And credence is being given to the report that the great tenor and the doubtful soprano will sing in the Chicago Opera next season, despite the fact that both had sworn never to do so while Mary reigned...
...Ganna Walska: "Before I sailed for Europe, reporters insulted me by asking whether I was leaving America because of unfavorable comment on my singing. I replied by stating that American newspapers go in for sensationalism. It is sensational to say: 'Ganna cannot sing.' It is not sensational to declare: ' Ganna can sing.' 'In Europe,' I added, 'newspaper men are not interested in my private life- fortunately...